The whaling ship "Eskimo" is a very old ship. By the time Captain Hardaway bought it from a friend, it had been on the surface for nearly twenty years. Ten years ago, Captain Hardaway bought it and improved it by fitting it with an American-made marine diesel engine to make it a little faster to chase the humpback whales that roamed off Iceland.

Of course, the main power of this wooden boat is the sails. To paraphrase later generations, this is a sailing ship. Naturally, a ship like this would not be equipped with expensive radio communication equipment. So, in the case of a shipwreck nearby, the sailors on this ship were completely ignorant.

Today, the boat has a small sail and moves slowly in the early morning sun, and humpback whales are often seen in the waters of this generation, so sailor Nelson is climbing on the mast to look out into the distance, hoping to see the humpback whales spewing up the water column. At this time, a muffled thunderous voice came from afar.

"Thunder again? But now it's a sunny day. Nelson thought in surprise as he looked around. Then, on the starboard side, he saw a column of water rise in the distance, but apparently it was not a column of water spewed by a humpback whale, it was much thicker, and after a dozen seconds or so, he heard the sound of thunder again.

Nelson held up the monocular in his hand and looked in which direction, and soon he found a small boat in that direction. "What's that?" Nelson's eyes widened, "That's, that's like a lifeboat!" ”

"Captain! On the starboard side, there is a lifeboat! Nelson shouted.

"What? Lifeboat? Damn it! I thought you could see a pod of humpback whales! From below came the voice of Captain Hardaway.

The whaling ship's mast was not very high, and Captain Hardaway climbed up in two clicks, took Nelson's telescope and looked over there, then handed the telescope back to Nelson, and shouted as he slid down the mast, "Tony! Turn to the direction of three o'clock, let's go to the rescue! ”

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"Look, the boat has turned!" On the lifeboat, a female passenger shouted loudly.

"yes, it's turned around, it's coming towards us!" Another female passenger also shouted with a cry.

"Well, we're saved!" More people shouted with laughter.

"Listen to me, friends." Alice suddenly shouted. Perhaps it was because Alice had suddenly turned up pistols and grenades to scare the passengers, so as soon as she spoke, everyone immediately fell silent.

"Everyone knows who Miss Dena is." Alice lowered her face and said, "You also know that revealing this identity may cause problems for Miss Dena's safety. So, I hope you can help me keep it a secret. At the very least, for a short time, don't tell Miss Dena's identity until she returns to the United States. ”

This is a completely understandable request. And looking at the boat that was approaching them, everyone felt more and more that Alice's request was very reasonable. Because, as the ship got closer and closer, everyone saw that the ship was not a gentleman-looking cruise ship or a decent looking large cargo ship, but a very shabby and evil ship that looked very tattered. Some people have thoughts like "can't it be a pirate ship?"

Of course, there are no zài pirate ships on this sea. In this era, the Vikings who once roamed the seven seas had long since cleared their hands on piracy, because there were still remnants of pirates in the Atlantic Ocean only in the island-strewn areas of the routes to South America and Africa.

The whaling ship gradually approached, and now, for the sake of ease of maneuvering, the whaling ship had lowered its sails and slowly approached the lifeboat against a small diesel engine, lest the waves set off and overturn the ship.

"Who are you? What's going on? Nelson asked aloud.

"We are sailors and passengers on the Atlantic Cruiser." "Our boat was caught in ghost waves, and after abandoning ship yesterday, it was caught in the wind and waves, and we got separated from the other lifeboats. ”

Generally speaking, people who are begging for a living at sea will lend a helping hand to people who are in distress like this, because no one can guarantee that they will not be the next unlucky person to fall into trouble. In addition, Captain Hardaway knew that the sailor was absolutely not telling a lie after just one glance, so he agreed to let these men aboard.

"Oh, we don't have a radio on board, so there's no way to communicate with the outside world. I'll have to send you to Iceland first. After disembarking, there is a carriage to Reykjavík. There you will be able to find a place to live, a radio station, and a ship to Europe or North America. Okay, we're back. "After all the people are on board, Captain Hardaway said to those who were rescued." The "Eskimo" was originally small, but now so many people came up at once, and it was suddenly crowded, and it was obviously unrealistic to continue to wander the ocean, looking for humpback whales or something. So Captain Hardaway decided to go straight back. Although a trip for nothing will cause him some losses, according to the rules, he can also ask the owner of the "Atlantic Cruiser" for compensation. Moreover, the passengers who were rescued also expressed their willingness to pay him for the ferry tickets.

The whaling ship "Eskimo" was not a very fast ship. Especially since there are no whales on the boat, there is no need to worry about the whales rotting after a long time, so on the way back, in order to save money, it has been sailing with sails instead of using diesel engines. As a result, the speed of the ship was not even ten knots, so it took them three days to reach Reykjavík. And, because tourism in Iceland was not developed at all at that time, the vast majority of ships did not stop in Iceland at all. As a result, there were very few other ships on the route taken by the whaling vessels. Until the "Eskimo" reached Reykjavík, they did not encounter any other ships.

At this time, Reykjavik was still a real small fishing village. Its main industry is fishing and whaling. A few years ago, the British and the Morgan consortium cooperated to build a wireless communication line to break MacDonald's monopoly on transatlantic telegraphs, but for some technical reasons, their signal was not as good as MacDonald's, so later, they went to Iceland to build a relay communication station.

In addition, the British and Danes also built some seafood here, especially whale processing plants, where the humpback whales towed by Captain Hardaway and his family were initially processed and then loaded onto cargo ships from Europe or the United States for further processing.

"Dena, shall we send a telegram to our family?" Alice asked.

"Absolutely." Dena said, "Why do you ask this? ”

"The radio here is not our MacDonald's, and if we shoot a telegram here, even if it's in codeword, it might get someone else's attention. I'm worried that there might be security issues. Alice said.

"That's a problem. But Alice, if you think about it, there is absolutely no such thing as a ghost wave. Therefore, no one can prepare anything in advance for the shipwreck of the Atlantic Cruiser, and even if someone with bad intentions receives a telegram from the Atlantic Cruiser, they may not know that I am on board. Even if they knew I was on the ship, they would not have known that we had arrived in Iceland, let alone flown to Iceland to arrange a conspiracy against us. Even if we had sent out the telegram in plain code now, waited for those guys to know the news, and then made a plan to send someone to Iceland, we would have been out of Iceland a long time ago. So what's the security issue with that? Dena asked rhetorically.

Dena's argument makes a lot of sense. However, Alice thought for a moment and said, "Let's use secret language, use a lower level." ”

"No, just use clear code. But once we've found a ship to leave, we'd better hire the sailor named Aimar and let him stay in Iceland for two days before we get the word out. Dena suddenly smiled mysteriously and said to Alice, "Dear Comrade Alice, are you really willing to leave Europe and go back to North America?" Are you really willing to miss out on a big time that is surging? ”

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The news of the shipwreck of the "Atlantic Cruiser" reached Duck Fort almost immediately, and the entire Duck Fort was immediately in chaos. Hearing this, Ms. Catherine fainted directly - this fully shows that although the traditional European and American tunic classical dresses look very tall, they are no less effective in destroying health than the oriental foot wraps.

However, the telegram also confirmed that Miss Dena had boarded the lifeboat. And before getting on the lifeboat, he also performed a feat that was enough to be counted in the textbooks. Therefore, everyone's love is a little more stable. One night later, Smith, the bodyguard who had boarded another boat, sent bad news over the ship's radio: "The lifeboats were blown away in the wind and waves last night, so he doesn't know what happened to Miss Dena, but he can be sure that Miss Dena and Alice are together." ”

This news lifted everyone's hearts again, and in the days that followed, the MacDonalds, through their influence, checked all the passenger and cargo ships equipped with radio in the area at the time of the incident, but to no avail. However, there was also an old cargo ship in the area at that time that was not equipped with a radio. So almost all hope was focused on this boat.

However, when the ship docked, everyone was disappointed again - and Dena was not on the ship. So now all hopes are placed on the two speedboats that were urgently sent by the MacDonald family to carry out a search mission in the area of the accident, and the two high-speed cruisers urgently dispatched by the US Navy.

After two more days of anxious waiting, they finally got the good news - Dena and Alice sent back a telegram from Guò in Iceland, announcing that they had boarded a ship from Iceland.

"This telegram is so vague, why is there neither the name of the ship nor the time and place of departure and arrival on it?" Catherine asked anxiously as she looked at the telegram.

"Don't worry, Catherine, this is where Dena is smart. We have a lot of enemies, and they are not our enemies, those who want to make a fortune through guò or something, all over the world, if you say it too clearly, isn't it easy to be dangerous? Don't rush yet, then they'll be fine. Carol said comforting his wife. None of them realized at the time that from now on, Dena would disappear from their lives for a long time.